Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SERIOUS...
Other well regarded serious plays are ESCAPE; Civic REPERTORY THEATRE; THE IRISH PLAYERS; BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM; CAPONSACCHI...
...purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory is, of course, that a serious student will do much better work and get better results if he is put on his own responsibility--a theory to which we heartily subscribe. It is also likely that such a quiet period will give the less serious student his first real acquaintance with scholarship and a taste for study that...
...they have had no serious rivals as yet, the first-year men look back on a series of undefeated games. If comparative scores may be considered as adequate evidence, the first-year men should win today's encounter...
...practical achievements demand and exact that condition. Nor can we change the situation so long as this difference between the European and the American culture exists. Perhaps the relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with the American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical...